58 Quotes by Hope Mirrlees

..fairy was delusion, so was the law. At any rate, it was a sort of magic, moulding reality into any shape it chose.

The narrow zone of color created by the firelight was like the planet Earth―a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows.

And the real anchor is not hope but faith — even if it be only somebody else's faith.

Poor old moon!" chuckled master Nathaniel, who was now in the highest of spirits, "always filching colours with which to paint her own pale face, and all in vain!

You are, so to speak, a bad sailor, and the motion of life makes you brain-sick.

The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead. They called them both the 'Silent People'; and the Milky Way they thought was the path along which the dead were carried to Fairyland.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.

And the sun would set, and then our riders could watch the actual process of colour fading from the world. Was that tree still really green, or was it only that they were remembering how a few seconds ago it had been green?

Beauty doesn’t keep, but rots like apples.